bulldozer

Plural: bulldozers

Noun

• large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground
• A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
• One who bulldozes.
• A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.
• A bully; an overbearing individual.

Verb

• To bulldoze (demolish with a bulldozer).
• To bulldoze (push through forcefully).

Examples

• They bulldozered through the crowd.

Synonyms

dozer, blade, regulator